They therefore make the necessary arrangements internally and with the parents.[6350] That is why, outside of France, the French internat, so artificial, so forced, so exaggerated, is almost unknown.

In Germany, out of one hundred pupils in the gymnases, which correspond to our lycees, there are scarcely ten boarders lodged and fed in the gymnase; the rest, even when their parents do not live near by, remain day-scholars, private guests in the families that harbor them, often at a very low price and which take the place of the absent family.

No boarders are found in them except in a few gymnases like Pforta and by virtue of an ancient endowment.

The number, however, by virtue of the same endowment, is limited; they dine, in groups of eight or ten,[6351] at the same table with the professors lodged like themselves in the establishment, while they enjoy for a playground a vast domain of woods, fields and meadow .-- The same in England, at Harrow, Eton and Rugby.

Each professor, here, is keeper of a boarding-house; he has ten, twenty and thirty boys under his roof, eating at his table or at a table the head of which is some lady of the house.